Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.
Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 percent of companies say they expect to move all desktops to the operating system, according to a survey released this week. Furthermore, adoption of Linux continues to gather pace, with a particular emphasis on the desktop emerging.
With the consumer launch of Microsoft Vista just over a month away, the Free Software Foundation has launched an anti-Vista campaign that aims to persuade businesses and individuals to consider alternative operating systems.
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) has advised schools against upgrading to Windows Vista or Microsoft Office 2007 because of the prohibitive cost and interoperability issues.
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Microsoft's chairman discusses his favourite Vista feature, why he'll keep pushing for a new file system and open source's role.
In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.
In a rare joint interview, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer discuss ad-supported software, the battles against Sony and Google, and what's so great about the upcoming Vista.
Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
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If high-end systems are too expensive for your videoconferencing needs, and low-end setups just don't do the job, here are a few solutions you'll want to get face to face with.
Interested in sharing audio files? Here is an overview of free downloads that could get you connected to a variety of on-line file-sharing communities. Easy-to-use, the following Napster-type clients also offer chat programs that work to bring members closer together.
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In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.
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